Erin McKean

Erin McKean

Erin McKean is the founder Wordnik.com, the world’s biggest online dictionary, and is the former editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press. Her goal is to make every word in the English language “lookupable” – including the 52% of unique English words that aren’t currently in any dictionary. Erin is the author of three Weird and Wonderful Words books, The Secret Lives of Dresses, and The Hundred Dresses. She’s written regular columns for The Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal, served as an advisor to the American National Corpus and the Wikimedia Foundation, and serves on the KPCB Design Council.